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Sunday, 13 August 2017

President Buhari - I’m waiting for my doctor’s order to return home.

There is a tremendous improvement in my health,
but that I'm waiting for my doctor's orders before I return
home, President Buhari says
President Buhari said this while receiving the presidential media
team, and the Senior Special Assistant on Diaspora Matters, at Abuja
House, London, on Saturday.

Alhaji Lai Mohammed, Minister of Information
and Culture, led the visiting team, accompanied by Mr. Femi Adesina,
Special Adviser on Media and Publicity; Mallam Garba Shehu, Senior
Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, and Lauretta Onochie, Personal
Assistant on Digital/Online Media.

Also there was Mrs Abike
Dabiri-Erewa, Senior Special Assistant on Diaspora Matters.

When the team expressed delight at the much improved health of the
President, he retorted: "I feel I could go home, but the doctors are in
charge. I've now learnt to obey orders, rather than be obeyed."

On how he felt hearing different conjectures about his health, an
amused President Buhari said he followed events at home closely, lauding
Nigerian television stations, and the media generally, for keeping him
informed.

When told that prayers were going on fervently for him, not only in
Nigeria, but all over Africa, and round the world, a delighted President
said: "What we did in The Gambia early this year fetched us a lot of
goodwill on the African continent. It gave us a lot of latitude. I thank
all those who are praying. May God reward them."

President Buhari sent appreciation to all Nigerians, expressing hope that he would be with them soon.